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Seoul Knowledge Connection Festival/Forums

It is a festival program in which Seoul citizens directly participate to create and share knowledge culture and explore the future role of the Seoul Metropolitan Library.

Introduction

  • This is a library festival for citizens to voluntarily share and spread knowledge culture, different from the traditional library festivals centered on 'reading' and 'publishing'. At the forum, ideas on the direction, status, and achievements of the changing Seoul Metropolitan Library policy projects are shared, and citizens can create and share knowledge culture together through festival programs that they can participate in.

Basis

  • Article 9 of the Reading Culture Promotion Act (Promotion of Reading in the Region)
  • Article 31 of the Seoul Metropolitan Government Ordinance on the Promotion of Libraries and Reading Culture (Promotion of Reading Culture in the Region)
  • Library Development Comprehensive Plan for "City of Knowledge and Culture, Seoul" (Mayor's Policy No. 109)

Objective

  • Proposing changes in the library by actively utilizing the Seoul Metropolitan Library as a space for the festival
  • Sharing and spreading the vision of Seoul Metropolitan Library through citizen participation in the festivals and forums
  • Promotion of events to break the stereotypes on libraries (learning space, quiet space)

Period

  • 2019~2022

Summary by Year

Summary by Year - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
2019 2020 2021 2022
2019년도 축제 포스터 2020년도 축제 포스터 2021년도 축제 포스터 2022년도 축제 포스터
Online festival (30 days) Online festival (10 days)
Summary by Year - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
2019
2019년도 축제 포스터
2020(Online festival (30 days))
2020년도 축제 포스터
2021(Online festival (10 days))
2021년도 축제 포스터
2022
2022년도 축제 포스터

Major Program

  • Idea-thon (Link Revolution): This is an event in which the citizens plan the future library with their ideas, finding and solving problems in the public library, suggesting creative ideas related to the topic and conclude with the citizens’ evaluation.

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서울지식이음의 휘장(심볼마크) - ㅈㅅㅇㅇ 서울지식이음의 휘장2(심볼마크) - ㅈㅅㅇㅇ
  • ‘Knowledge connection’ represents that all citizens experience and share knowledge beyond books and libraries. The four Hangeul characters each refer to people, ascension, coexistence, and balance. The people, knowledge, and culture are connected, as it is in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The various colors represent the colorful event programs that everyone enjoys.